An address delivered at the Conversazione held at the London Hospital, October 2nd, 1882 / by Jonathan Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Jonathan, Sir, 1828-1913.
Date:
1882
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Credit: An address delivered at the Conversazione held at the London Hospital, October 2nd, 1882 / by Jonathan Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    1G Hebrew writers were those with whom he most closely sympathised, finding in them an earnestness akin to his own. Like them he had to bewail that his message found no hearing. One's heart/' he wrote, is for hours and days overcast with the sad feeling: 'There is none, then, not one, that will believe in me !' Great in this life is the com- munion of man with man. Meanwhile continue then to believe in thyself. Let the chattering of innumerable gig- men pass by thee as what it is. Wait, thou, on the bounties of thy unseen Taskmaster, on the hests of thy inward Damon. Sow the seed-field of Time. What if thou see no fruit of it, another will. Be not weak. One way or other, thy message will and shall be uttered. Write it down on paper any way; speak it from thee—so shall thy painful, destitute existence not have been in vain. Oh, in vain! Hadst thou, even thou, a message from the Eternal, and thou grudgest the travail of thy embassy ! O! thou of little faith \ With many such expressions do we find him in his private diary striving to sustain and strengthen his sense of responsibility in his work. The message which he believed that he had chiefly to deliver was that the Natural is also the Supernatural. He sought not to degrade the super- natural by bringing it down to the natural, but rather to elevate the natural. In this there is doubtless a great meaning, but at the same time somewhat of the jargon of words. To say that the natural and the supernatural are really all one, and both the work of one and the same Maker, is probably to most of us the simplest and at the same time a sufficient mode of expression. Many ages have had their prophets and their seers, those who in uttermost earnest have set themselves to deliver the messages with which they had been entrusted. If I am not mistaken, however, no age and no country has been more favoured in this respect than our own. I will name to you